Southwark Pensioners Centre

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have informed us that in the week beginning 17th July they will be inspecting community mental health teams (CMHTs) for adults of working age provided by South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust.

If you have any information to share with the CQC about experiences of care and treatment with a CMHT, please get in touch with us:

Email: info@healthwatchsouthwark.co.uk

Telephone: 020 7358 7005

Your views can help inform the questions the CQC will ask as well as their findings. We will keep your feedback anonymous.

We will also pass on to the inspectors any other feedback about the CMHTs which we have heard recently.

Below is some background information you may find useful.

Best wishes,

The Healthwatch Southwark Team

What is SLaM? South London and the Maudsley Trust (SLaM) is the NHS Foundation Trust which runs many of the mental health hospital, outpatient and community services in Southwark and across South London.

What is the Care Quality Commission (CQC)? The CQC is the independent regulator of all health and social care services in England. They carry out inspections to services and produce reports where they highlight areas of good practice and areas that must be improved. They ask 5 key questions when they inspect services:

• Are they safe?
• Are they effective?
• Are they caring?
• Are they responsive to people’s needs?
• Are they well-led?

When did SLaM last have an inspection by the CQC? SLaM received an inspection of the whole Trust from the CQC in September 2015. A report was published in January 2016. SLaM received an overall rating of ‘Good’:

• Are they safe? Requires Improvement
• Are they effective? Good
• Are they caring? Good
• Are they responsive to people’s needs? Good
• Are they well-led? Good

Since this inspection, the CQC have been looking again at specific services within SLaM to see what has changed.

DON’T LET THE OLD

DIE FROM THE COLD

The majority of excess deaths in winter occur in those aged 75 and over.

In 2014/15, across all of England and Wales, the government’s estimated figures saw a huge increase from 18,000 to 43,900 in deaths from cold related illnesses – the highest number since 1999/00.

In Southwark, 125 people died from cold related illnesses.

The latest figures for additional winter deaths will be released November 23^rd 2016.

On that day, SPAG will be taking as many Southwark people as possible to protest the high number of deaths. The London Region of the National Pensioners Convention will be releasing black balloons, with each balloon representing 1000 deaths.

SPAG invites Southwark people to join us meeting at the Tabernacle at the Elephant and Castle at 11am.

The protest takes place from  11.30am to 12.30pm,  Wednesday 23^rd 2016, by George V’s statue at Old Palace Yard Westminster opposite the House of Lords. Please do join us.

NPC

National Pensioners Convention

GREATER LONDON REGION

The Facts

1. An estimated 43,900 excess winter deaths occurred in England and Wales in 2014/15; the highest number since 1999/00, with 27% more people dying in the winter months compared with the non-winter months.

2. The majority of deaths occurred among people aged 75 and over; there were an estimated 36,300 excess winter deaths in this age group in 2014/15, compared with 7,700 in people aged under 75.

3. There were more excess winter deaths in females than in males in 2014/15, as in previous years. Male excess winter deaths increased from 7,210 to 18,400, and female deaths from 10,250 to 25,500 between 2013/14 and 2014/15.

4. Respiratory diseases were the underlying cause of death in more than a third of all excess winter deaths in 2014/15.

5. The excess winter mortality index was highest in the South West in 2014/15 and joint lowest in Yorkshire and The Humber, and Wales

Source: Office for National Statistics